Letters June 10, 1905 Issue

Letters to our Leader

with contributions from Minnie A. Scott, Daisette D. S. McKenzie, Sarah M. Smith, J. R. MacDuff

Boston, May 8, 1905.

Beloved Leader: —As the fragrance of the blossoming trees comes to me through the open windows this beautiful spring morning, I am reminded of an incident which shows how the fragrance of your noble, loving life is reaching every one whose "windows" are open to receive its message of light and love. When visiting a small town in the north of Ireland, we met a gentleman to whom we had sent a Christian Science Journal some time before. He was very anxious to hear more about your teachings and was told how I had been healed by reading Science and Health,—made perfectly well. He had known me as a very sickly child, and on my last visit to this town, when I was nineteen, it was not expected that I would survive the winter. My ills were then supposed to have been inherited. My father said for himself that he was better than he had been for thirty years, and his experience was best expressed in the words of Bartimeus, "whereas I was blind [groping in blind faith], now I see," —am living in conscious understanding of God. This gentleman wondered very much that all our family in America had not accepted Christian Science, and could not understand how any one could entertain any prejudice in regard to your life and motives. He said that to him the fact that you had brought this message to the world, and were proving your word by your deeds, was sufficient proof that you were appointed of God, and no one else could have filled your place; that in his estimation you were following more closely in the footsteps of the Master than even his immediate apostles, for we read in Acts that handkerchiefs or aprons were taken to the sick from the body of Paul, while you do not permit any such thing, teaching rather that it is the Spirit which leadeth into all truth, and is the Healer of mankind.

This loving recognition of God's messenger, from one who had only had a copy of The Christian Science Journal to tell him of the message, brought to mind the words of Jesus, "Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed;" also the words of the prophet Elisha, "Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them;" also these words from Science and Health, page 570, "Millions of unprejudiced minds—simple seekers for Truth, weary wanderers, athirst in the desert—are waiting and watching for rest and drink." As the eyes of the young man were opened to see the chariots of fire around the prophet Elisha, so were mine opened to see that divine Love was protecting the messenger of Truth to this age, and my fear of prejudice was rebuked. A little later, I found that the Journal which this gentleman prized contained an article from your pen,—a letter which you had sent to the Church in Concord, rebuking the human sense that would assume there was healing virtue in the flowers which you sent from Pleasant View, because they came from you. Faithfully and unselfishly you are ever turning our thought to Spirit, God, who clothes the lilies in their glory and is the Giver of all good.

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